gecko/xpcom/threads/nsIThread.idl

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/* -*- Mode: C++; tab-width: 2; indent-tabs-mode: nil; c-basic-offset: 2 -*- */
/* vim:set ts=2 sw=2 sts=2 et cindent: */
/* This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public
* License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this
* file, You can obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/. */
#include "nsIEventTarget.idl"
[ptr] native PRThread(PRThread);
/**
* This interface provides a high-level abstraction for an operating system
* thread.
*
* Threads have a built-in event queue, and a thread is an event target that
* can receive nsIRunnable objects (events) to be processed on the thread.
*
* See nsIThreadManager for the API used to create and locate threads.
*/
[scriptable, uuid(594feb13-6164-4054-b5a1-ad62e10ea15d)]
interface nsIThread : nsIEventTarget
{
/**
* @returns
* The NSPR thread object corresponding to this nsIThread.
*/
[noscript] readonly attribute PRThread PRThread;
/**
* Shutdown the thread. This method prevents further dispatch of events to
* the thread, and it causes any pending events to run to completion before
* the thread joins (see PR_JoinThread) with the current thread. During this
* method call, events for the current thread may be processed.
*
* This method MAY NOT be executed from the thread itself. Instead, it is
* meant to be executed from another thread (usually the thread that created
* this thread or the main application thread). When this function returns,
* the thread will be shutdown, and it will no longer be possible to dispatch
* events to the thread.
*
* @throws NS_ERROR_UNEXPECTED
* Indicates that this method was erroneously called when this thread was
* the current thread, that this thread was not created with a call to
* nsIThreadManager::NewThread, or if this method was called more than once
* on the thread object.
*/
void shutdown();
/**
* This method may be called to determine if there are any events ready to be
* processed. It may only be called when this thread is the current thread.
*
* Because events may be added to this thread by another thread, a "false"
* result does not mean that this thread has no pending events. It only
* means that there were no pending events when this method was called.
*
* @returns
* A boolean value that if "true" indicates that this thread has one or
* more pending events.
*
* @throws NS_ERROR_UNEXPECTED
* Indicates that this method was erroneously called when this thread was
* not the current thread.
*/
boolean hasPendingEvents();
/**
* Process the next event. If there are no pending events, then this method
* may wait -- depending on the value of the mayWait parameter -- until an
* event is dispatched to this thread. This method is re-entrant but may
* only be called if this thread is the current thread.
*
* @param mayWait
* A boolean parameter that if "true" indicates that the method may block
* the calling thread to wait for a pending event.
*
* @returns
* A boolean value that if "true" indicates that an event was processed.
*
* @throws NS_ERROR_UNEXPECTED
* Indicates that this method was erroneously called when this thread was
* not the current thread.
*/
boolean processNextEvent(in boolean mayWait);
/**
* Shutdown the thread asynchronously. This method immediately prevents
* further dispatch of events to the thread, and it causes any pending events
* to run to completion before this thread joins with the current thread.
*
* UNLIKE shutdown() this does not process events on the current thread.
* Instead it merely ensures that the current thread continues running until
* this thread has shut down.
*
* This method MAY NOT be executed from the thread itself. Instead, it is
* meant to be executed from another thread (usually the thread that created
* this thread or the main application thread). When this function returns,
* the thread will continue running until it exhausts its event queue.
*
* @throws NS_ERROR_UNEXPECTED
* Indicates that this method was erroneously called when this thread was
* the current thread, that this thread was not created with a call to
* nsIThreadManager::NewThread, or if this method was called more than once
* on the thread object.
*/
void asyncShutdown();
};